Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CuldeSac. Roman Polanski, 33, is the Paris-born Pole who three years ago captured an international audience with a precocious thriller called Knife in the Water. Knife in hand, this switchbloc Hitchcock then went West and persuaded British producers to finance a small masterpiece of menace called Repulsion. His third film, also made in England, is a jittery-tittery comedy of terrors in which Polanski hones his slapstick to a razor-edge...
...story has been told on film before (The Petrified Forest, He Ran All the Way, Desperate Hours), but Polanski tells it in a manner cannily calculated to propagate tension. Tension is set up between Romanesque stones that soothe the eye and electronic jazz that grates the ear. Tension is set up in the script, which systematically intersperses-interfuses episodes of horror and hilarity. Tension is set up by the camera, which in frame after frame lets the danger lurk just out of sight until the onlooker feels like a man cooped up with a cobra he cannot...
...London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair. For the past several weeks, Michelangelo Antonioni has been prowling the streets...
REPULSION. The nightmare deeds of a fragile blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) are shown in excruciating detail by a master of the macabre, Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water...
REPULSION. This chilling case study by Writer-Director Roman Polanski describes how a tormented blonde manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) retreats into a nightmare world, working considerable mischief along...